Municipality websites as a communication channel in the Central Bohemia region
2012
Cmejrek, J., Czech Univ. of Life Sciences, Prague (Czech Republic) | Urbanova, M., Czech Univ. of Life Sciences, Prague (Czech Republic)
E-government represents a relatively new but booming concept in the Czech Republic. The investigation of communication channels in public administration is very important in the case of the Czech Republic considering its disintegrated nature of settlements (the number of municipalities has increased by half since the Velvet Revolution in 1989). There are 6,249 municipalities in the Czech Republic, which is quite a high number for a country with ten million inhabitants. The research shows that the introduction of ICTs significantly enhances the access of citizens to information, not only in bigger cities but also in numerous rural communities. This is, however, namely the case of information relating directly to the activities of local administration bodies and to public services. As for information on competing political entities and their programmes, election campaigns, on civic associations and interest groups activities, we only find random and isolates pieces of information that cannot be used to make a coherent picture of the local political process. This paper focuses on municipality websites in the Central Bohemia Region that is characterized not only by the disintegrated nature of settlements but also by processes of suburbanization and metropolization.
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